AC Milan will face Torino, their opponent in the first round of Serie A, in an away match at 02:45 on August 24 Beijing time (CEST). Head coach Amorim attended the pre-match press conference. This article is the fifth part of the press conference.

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Michael Como (Radio Lombardia): Hello coach, in Italy, we are usually very accustomed to having a "field director" or "team manager" in the dressing room and with the first team, who handles day-to-day matters and spends all day with the team. However, at AC Milan currently, we seemingly do not see such a traditional field manager role. Instead, we have the owner directly involved with significant decision-making power and executives. The coach needs to communicate directly with the top management. Can you share with us what actually happens internally each time Gerry Cardinale visits Milanello? Because from the observation of fans and media, his presence and attention to the training ground have increased significantly recently. Does this very close and seamless communication and consistency between owner and head coach give you a greater sense of responsibility?

In my opinion, making everyone here truly feel the weight of responsibility that comes with wearing red and black is the foundation of the team. For everyone at Milanello who serves AC Milan, this is the most important and necessary thing. At our training ground, the work and responsibilities of each person are very clear and standardized, with no gray areas, so everyone knows their mission.

What I want to emphasize is that this is not limited to a very smooth and unobstructed working relationship between myself and Mr. Cardinale. The more inspiring aspect is the humility and approachability that he demonstrates every time he comes to Milanello. He spends considerable time here, and when he walks around the training ground, he naturally, respectfully and sincerely, actively chats with our chefs sweating in the kitchen and warmly greets every ordinary logistics staff member working here, rather than speaking arrogantly only to the superstars of the first team or the head coach. In my opinion, this is where hearts are truly united.

For me, the most important and convincing point is that the entire team can truly feel that our owner is always on our side, carefully attending to every small detail of the entire club.If you speak in depth with Mr. Cardinale, you will become very aware that if AC Milan truly wants to take the long road to reclaim glory, such a highly dedicated and excellence-seeking organizational ecosystem must be built behind the scenes.

As for my duty and responsibility as head coach – those duties and responsibilities are always very clear and unwavering: to win tomorrow's match. Therefore, I will give everything to lead this team, which is so loved by the fans, to deliver a very exciting and entertaining chapter on the green pitch.

Pétrot-Barzano-Prota (Milan Vibes): Hello coach, on behalf of AC Milan fans, welcome. I would like to discuss with you in depth about pure tactical details on the pitch. In preseason, we observed that regarding Samuel Chukwueze's tactical positioning, are you trying to replicate your previous approach in developing Geovany Quindá during your time at Sporting CP, or your strategy of using Amad Diallo during your time at Manchester United? Additionally, from the perspective of overall formation and the balance of offensive and defensive transitions, does AC Milan currently have sufficient tactical flexibility to accommodate a super offensive player who is very aggressive and difficult to adapt, to control the wide areas in actual matches?

This fundamentally depends on the player's willingness to execute defensive work, tactical sacrifice, and game mentality. Sometimes, fans and the outside world tend to prejudge and highlight Chukwueze, mistakenly believing that he is destined to be unable to perform and deliver high-quality defensive work on the pitch just because he possesses unparalleled dribbling and ball-carrying skills in the opponent's penalty area.

However, in modern football, defense is not solely about rigid technical indicators like physical confrontation skills or tackling angles. Defense first concerns yourself – whether you have the steel will to run back for your teammates, and the fighting spirit to not fear close combat. I am confident that Samuel truly has the tough character to face this challenge head-on.

Furthermore, the more important point is that when we are in the defensive phase on the pitch, this is truly an overall strategic distribution that requires all 11 team members to work together and fall back as one, not just a defensive task assigned to him alone. He is making surprising progress every day in this regard. Of course, he is not at all a monotonous traditional defender who only stays in the back line.

I fully understand that in Italian football culture and tactical traditions, when interpreting the so-called wing-back position, the outside world often conservatively views it as a wing-back who leans more towards stable defense, rather than a winger who causes trouble in the opponent's area.But the tactical thinking I very much want to convey is that we indeed hope to build solid defense, but we pursue more the use of highly efficient ball possession and pressing to indirectly achieve top-level defense on the pitch.

If we lose control of the game's rhythm and the ball on the pitch, then in an actual match, even if we rigidly stack 10 defenders in front of the penalty area and in the back line, tomorrow's match would still fall into a painful situation where we are at the mercy of others. Therefore, my tactical approach must have players who can perfectly press opponents with their movement and tear apart the opponent's tactical lines, and Chukwueze possesses extraordinary talent in this tactical privilege. I believe that in the strong match previously against Manchester United, he personally proved to the world that he also possesses very high tactical execution and discipline in defense.

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